🌐 Global Economy 2d ago · Tyler Cowen

Is it the screens? Or education systems?

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The Dark Ages implies television and phones are the main cause of cognitive decline. This fails to explain the patterns in PISA scores. Why did England and Scotland fall so precipitously from 2000 to 2005 whilst America improved? Why did England and Estonia hold steady after 2015 whilst most other OECD countries declined? How have Singapore, Taiwan, Japan avoided decline altogether?
A better explanation is that a country’s education system is more important than its television diffusion.1 East A

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